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Monday, December 31, 2012

For a good, clean, new year ahead

Hey all,
I know my posts are getting more and more sporadic patterned and I have only my own lazy ass to blame.

Anyway, like the rest of Indian bloggerverse, I wanted to share my grief on what happened to the girl on that fatal Delhi night. I realize it's a topic talked and talked about to the point of numbness.
So instead, I'm going to share an excerpt of a pdf I'm currently reading. It's about the migration that Prophet Muhammed {Peace be upon Him} and the community made 1434 years ago to escape from the torture and difficulties being meted to them back in their homeland.

Don't worry, it's NOT HISTORICAL, NOT RELIGIOUS. Mostly the following portion is about the importance about goodness of heart, walking the talk, being practical in faith and not just be preachy.

I just felt the need to share something good of heart, what after all that violence, tears and pain. I might do a post ruminating the rampant rape culture in India. But that's for next post.

For now this talks about five important things we should work on:

Faith: A weak faith is the first enemy of a prospectimmigrant. The first immigrants would have never leftall their possessions behind and migrated unless theyhad faith as solid as mountains in God’s words and Hisprophet’s leadership. Like them, we should work onstrengthening our faith to be able to pull away fromwhat God has forbidden.

Knowledge: Our second enemy on the path of Hijrahis ignorance. Only with good knowledge could our faithsee us through the trials and tests of staying on thestraight path. This knowledge should not be limited toreligious information only, but should also includemodern sciences and arts, history, philosophy, worldnews, other cultures and other religions. Muslims had aglorious civilization only when they knew the truemeaning of knowledge.

Acts of worship:While migrating awayfrom what God has forbidden, we have to have a newdestination to migrate to, and that destination isdetermined by the degree of our closeness to Himthrough worship.Desire: The Quran describes eloquently the differenttypes of human desire “nafs”, and it is the responsibilityof each of us to discover which type they belong to andfollow the Quranic wisdom on how to deal with its tricks.Controlling one’s urges and desires is detrimental to howmuch success in this life one achieves as a migrant toGod.

Ethics : A person who is full of great concepts and nodeeds to prove it is a loser. Unless we can “walk thetalk” there would be no hope for us to strengthen ourwill to reach our goals and our resistance to distractions.And unless our Islamic ethical system is apparentthrough our everyday behaviors and manners, there isno hope for us to be true Muslims either according to theProphet’s hadith. For what good is it to veil, www.onislam.netpray and fast then steal, lie and gossip? When the Prophet beginsby describing a Muslim as someone who is wellmannered, he is actually reminding us that Islam is a practical code of ethics not just a set of spiritualconcepts.

That's it. I guess this isn't exactly a fun post to read through, but I just needed to do it. Like a note-to-self.

Hope we get to hear only good things next year. As impossible as it seems, at least we could contribute to lessening the evil, one person at a time.

2012 indeed ended with the realization that maybe the world did need to end. The extent of the rotting of ethics, humanity were all exposed. Even the kindest soul would understand why God throws some souls to the fires of Hell, why God may want to end his world.

There is a feeling of helplessness despite the uproar the country has raised.

I pray for hope and faith for this new year. A sign that water does clear best after once stirred to its muddiest. Hope it is darkest, because it is near dawn. A soul that schemed its own sacrifice to save humanity from any further fall and end of the world. God bless the soul with eternal peace and bliss

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